Director: Mascha Schilinski
Cast: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt
Sound of Falling is a 2025 German drama film directed by Mascha Schilinski, set across multiple eras on an isolated rural farm where four women — each living decades apart — find themselves entangled in the same patterns of silence, grief, and endurance that the land itself seems to hold.
What is Sound of falling about?
On a remote farm in the German countryside, time does not move in a straight line. The film weaves between four women living in different periods — yet bound by the same place and the same wounds passed down through generations. Each woman navigates her daily life under the weight of something unspoken: a grief inherited before it was ever explained, a secret lodged inside the farmhouse walls like an old splinter. As their stories echo across the decades, the film asks whether the land itself is capable of holding trauma, and whether understanding the past can release those who come after. No clear resolution is promised — only an honest reckoning with what is handed down and what, perhaps, can be set aside.
Cast & crew
Director Mascha Schilinski brings a measured, observational eye to the material, drawing quiet and controlled performances from her ensemble. Luise Heyer and Lena Urzendowsky anchor two of the film's generational threads, while Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt, Laeni Geiseler, Florian Geißelmann, and Andreas Anke fill out the film's layered, multi-era world with understated credibility.
Context & significance
For diaspora viewers who grew up between two cultures — one inherited, one adopted — Sound of Falling speaks to something immediately familiar: the way family silence travels across time, the way a place shapes the people raised inside it long after those people have moved on. Iranian families, like many who carry the weight of displacement and rupture, will recognize the emotional architecture here: women holding households together in the face of what cannot be said aloud. The film is from Germany and is not an Iranian production, but its emotional territory — memory, inheritance, the cost of silence — crosses cultural lines cleanly. Available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles.
Where & how to watch
Sound of Falling is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Start watching and cancel anytime.